Joshua Polacheck
Joshua Polacheck (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Arizona Corporation Commission. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
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Biography
Joshua Polacheck earned a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 2003 and a graduate degree from Harvard Kennedy School in 2018. His career experience includes working as a foreign service officer. He has been affiliated with the U.S. Department of State.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Arizona Corporation Commission election, 2024
General election
General election for Arizona Corporation Commission (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Arizona Corporation Commission on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rachel Walden (R)  | 17.9 | 1,507,193 |
| ✔ |  | Rene Lopez (R) | 17.4 | 1,463,433 |
| ✔ |  | Lea Marquez Peterson (R) | 16.9 | 1,423,183 |
 | Ylenia Aguilar (D) | 15.7 | 1,319,623 | |
 | Jonathon Hill (D) | 15.3 | 1,286,728 | |
 | Joshua Polacheck (D) | 14.4 | 1,216,480 | |
 | Nina Luxenberg (G) | 1.3 | 108,418 | |
 | Mike Cease (G) | 1.2 | 99,841 | |
 | Frank Bertone (D) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Total votes: 8,424,899 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona Corporation Commission (3 seats)
Ylenia Aguilar, Jonathon Hill, and Joshua Polacheck advanced from the Democratic primary for Arizona Corporation Commission on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ylenia Aguilar | 35.9 | 414,130 |
| ✔ | | Jonathon Hill | 32.8 | 378,014 |
| ✔ | | Joshua Polacheck | 31.3 | 360,835 |
| Total votes: 1,152,979 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona Corporation Commission (3 seats)
Rachel Walden, Rene Lopez, and incumbent Lea Marquez Peterson advanced from the Republican primary for Arizona Corporation Commission on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rachel Walden | 36.8 | 512,104 |
| ✔ | | Rene Lopez | 32.4 | 450,479 |
| ✔ | | Lea Marquez Peterson | 30.9 | 429,820 |
| Total votes: 1,392,403 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Christy Kelly (R)
Green primary election
Green primary for Arizona Corporation Commission (3 seats)
Mike Cease and Nina Luxenberg advanced from the Green primary for Arizona Corporation Commission on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Cease (Write-in) | 50.4 | 179 |
| ✔ | | Nina Luxenberg (Write-in) | 49.6 | 176 |
| Total votes: 355 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Polacheck in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Joshua Polacheck completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Polacheck's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I grew up across the rural West, seeing firsthand the value of public service. At 23, I was commissioned into the Foreign Service and spent nearly two decades serving America overseas, including in Mosul and Islamabad. In 2018, after getting my masters from the Harvard Kennedy School, I returned home to Arizona with my family. I have spent the last five years fighting to elect representatives who actually want to fix the real problems our state faces. I decided this is the year for me to get into the arena. Let’s stop playing politics with our essential utilities.
- Arizona needs affordable utilities.
- We need reliable utilities.
- We need to secure our energy and water future.
Energy independence, water security, rural electrification and broadband access.
Commitment to democracy and our Constitution.
We were driving through the Yukon on the way to my parents IHS assignment in Alaska, listening to the Challenger launch.
I spent two years working in a ceramic factory.
Ironworkers Local 75, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Arizona State Council
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Campaign website
Polacheck’s campaign website stated the following:
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Affordability We are living in chaotic times. Our current grid is tied to the global commodity markets for gas and coal. That means when Putin decides to invade another neighbor or if there’s conflict in the Middle East, your monthly electricity bill will go up. If we make investments in clean energy, we will control our own electricity prices. The current Commission is messing with the free market. They are in the pocket of out-of-state oil and coal companies, trying to lock us into dirty, water-hungry, and expensive fossil fuels for another generation.
In Texas, 240 people died when their grid failed due to the over-dependence on fossil fuels. The current majority on the Corporation Commission is trying to force this situation on to Arizona’s power grid. Let’s keep Texas’s failures out of the Grand Canyon state. Our utility companies are ready to invest in clean energy: solar, wind, storage, and efficiency. But the current Commission is getting in their way. These investments will protect Arizona families and businesses from disruptions to the global gas and coal supply chain, whether natural or man-made disasters. When the mercury hits triple digits, we can’t have our grid fail. Arizona energy independence through clean energy will ensure that never happens.
As a former national security official with four tours in the Middle East - including Iraq and Pakistan, I saw first-hand the human toll of our global fossil fuel supply chain. Our dependency on foreign energy is a national security issue. Arizona is uniquely positioned to harness our greatest natural resource: year round sunshine. With a diverse portfolio of solar, wind, and storage, Arizona can be energy independent, securing our power and economic future regardless of any disruptions to the fossil fuel supply chain. Bringing energy production home will lead to thousands of good, middle class jobs in the rural and urban parts of our state. Plus clean energy saves millions of gallons that go as steam to spin the turbines of gas and coal plants. Clean energy is already cheaper than fossil fuels, yet the current majority on the Corporation Commission is keeping our utilities using technology from the 1800s. [2] |
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| —Joshua Polacheck’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 18, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Joshua Polacheck for Arizona, “Priorities,” accessed June 21, 2024
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